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- December 19, 2025
- Kim Peek, Megasavant passed in 2009
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I was saddened to read of the passing of Kim Peek back in 2009.
Laurence Kim Peek was born on November 11, 1951 and passed December 19, 2009. He was an American savant and as such was known to an exceptional memory and recall despite having significant impairment in other areas of social functioning. This "megasavant" posessed exceptional intelligence despite concurrent developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities.
He was the inspiration for the character Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 movie Rain Man.
He was previously diagnosed as autistic but was ultimately believed to have FG syndrome, a rare X-linked genetic disorder whereby the person has a range of symptons such as developmental delay, diminished tonus which refers to low muscle tone, intellectual disability, chronic constipation, and excretory abnormalities.
It is primarily observed in male individuals and is associated with characteristic craniofacial features such as a prominent forehead and hypertelorism which refers to eye sockets which are widely spaced.
He was a cosmopolitan individual who grew to be at home in the public eye and was readily capable of displaying his prodigious memory and knowledge of that contained in the innumeral books he had read.
He resided with and was accompanied by his devoted father, Fran who tended to his every need during his lifetime in Murray, Utah.
They are interred together at Holladay Memorial Park in Holladay, Utah.
Rest in peace.
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- December 18, 2025
- Only 7 more days til Christmas
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- December 18, 2025
- National Roast Suckling Pig Day 2025
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I'm rather ashamed to say that I have both eaten Roast Suckling Pig and found it quite tasty.
The trepidations I feel concern the consuming of infant food animals as well as the appearance of the dish before, while, and after it is cooked.
Now then, we are observing National Roast Suckling Pig Day. It pays homage to the tender and flavorful albeit cruel appearing culinary item indigenous to the south sea islands and such.
National Roast Suckling Pig day promotes itself as a day to indulge in the savory delight of roast suckling pig. It makes note of the culinary artistry involved in preparing this dish as well as the exquisite flavors it imparts to those consuming palates.
National Roast Suckling Pig Day happens each December 18th annually. It’s an opportunity for chefs and food enthusiasts to showcase their skills in preparing and roasting this delicacy.
We who were raised near farms and took a personal interest in the animals — or may have considered owning a pet pig as a companion animal may be less enthusiastic regarding the day.
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- December 17, 2025
- Only 8 more days til Christmas
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- December 16, 2025
- Boston Tea Party Day 2025
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December 16 is Boston Tea Party Day. It commemorates the 1773 protest where American colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor to protest unfair taxation.
This was a key event leading to the American Revolution and it is remembered annually with reenactments and commemorative events.
On December 16, 1773 memebers of a group called the Sons of Liberty, disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded three ships in Boston Harbor. They destroyed 342 chests of tea by tearing them open and dumping them into the harbor. This was a protest of the Tea Act and "taxation without representation" from the British Parliament.
The already tense situation was met with the punitive Intolerable Acts and the colonists became united against England sparking the American Revolution.
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- December 15, 2025
- Death of Sitting Bull in 1890
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Today in 1890 Lakota Chief Sitting Bull was killed by tribal police who were sent to take him into custody for his involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement.
The Ghost Dance was a late 19th-century Native American spiritual movement. It began with Paiute prophet Wovoka and offered hope for cultural renewal and driving out white settlers through sacred dances and rituals.
It envisioned a new earth with buffalo and ancestors returning.
US officials saw it as a militant threat. It ended tragically at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, where US troops fired on unarmed Ghost Dancers. This is pretty unseemly given the fact that The Republic missed no opportunity to walk all over the native Americans otherwise.
The tribal police encountered his supporters which turned into a violent gun fight at his cabin at Standing Rock Reservation.
As usual the US Authorities believed they owned the lands because though they were actually intrusive interlopers fearing rebellion. They ordered his arrest. A gunfight ensued. During the gunfight Sitting Bull was struck in the chest by a bullet and died as the result. He was 59 years old.
Sitting Bull was killed, along with several others, including his son, Kangis Siha (Crow Foot).
Sitting Bull has two official burial sites. He has his original grave at Fort Yates, North Dakota. There is a second site where his remains were moved by his family to Mobridge, South Dakota which is near his birth place. Singularly, the US Government was the absolute worst thing to ever happen to the Native Americans who actually owned the lands that were confiscated.
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- December 14, 2025
- Vlad the Impaler was born in 1431
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Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler was a Romanian hero making him the model for Dracula the vampire according to many accounts.
My youth found me enthralled by monsters and such and Dracula was one of those so — once I found out a little about him — Vlad naturally became an interest of mine over the years.
He was the second son of Vlad Draculis and is remembered as a brutal proponent of independence from the Turks — ruthless with all including enemies and his countrymen alike who did not live their lives according to his strict standards of morality.
His signature punishment was "impaling" where a sharpened wooden pole was used to suspend the victim above the ground typically causing death and great suffering prior to that moment.
He was called 'Dracula' because his father, Vlad II was a member of the Order of the Dragon which was a chivalric order created to defend Christendom against the Ottoman Turks whereby he became known as "Dracul" (or Dragon).
Dracula meant "son of Dracul" in medieval Romanian hence the name through out history. Modern Romanian maintains that the word for "devil" is "drac" and this became part and parcel of that association with the fictional vampire of literature.
It took me a long time to finally differentiate between the actual man from history and the fictional character from Bram Stoker's novel.
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- December 13, 2025
- Nothing Worthwhile Happening 12/13/2025
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It's peckerhead Dick Van Dyke the insufferable woke asshole's birthday.
When I was a child I enjoyed his acting. I used to watch him and Mary Tyler Moore on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Later he loosed his stupid politics on the world like the would-be influencer his dumb ass would like to be.
Richard Wayne Van Dyke has a history as an award-winning American actor, comedian, and entertainer. He has worked across film, stage, radio, and live theater.
Now he's just a political curmudgeon trying to force his backward opinions on anyone and everyone.
He was born born December 13, 1925.
He's turning 100 years old and as far as I am concerned he's outlived his value as a human being. I hope he dies soon.
Boo !
See Also:
Dick Van Dyke became a libtard
I remember Billy De Wolfe
Mary Tyler Moore's Posthumous Birthday
Rose Marie RIP
Mary Tyler Moore RIP
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- December 12, 2025
- National Poinsettia Day 2025
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Ah, the poinsettia.
That predominately red and green foliage that makes the Christmas season more special in my mind.
The holidays have made the poinsettia one of those recognizable icons of Christmas in particular ...
I was once sweet on a girl whose family grew and sold them locally.
Now we have National Poinsettia Day each December 12.
The poinsettia initially came to the United States via one Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist and the first US Minister to Mexico.
In 1825, he sent cuttings home to Charleston, South Carolina.
The plant didn't really start becoming popular until the 1920s through the efforts of a California farmer named Paul Ecke Jr.
He developed a grafting technque which caused the seedlings to branch out and they became a marketable item along the roadside flower stands then via marketing and shipping the plants all over.
Now I personally can't see the season going down without the poinsettia making things look more like Christmas.
See Also:
National Poinsettia Day 2024
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- December 11, 2025
- International Mountain Day 2025
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I used to travel up to the Blue Ridge Parkway most weekends. Nowadays I'm pretty much a homebody and don't venture out like I used to.
The vistas of the mountain tops were some of my favorite places. I recall spending hours on end at Craggy Gardens and the Pigsah Range farther South.
I never saw Sasquatch or anything untoward just the birds and other woodland creatures known to me. I was actively pursuing bigfoot at that time, however.
I contained my disappointment and let it all go for the other benefits of hitting the mountain range close to home.
Today is International Mountain Day. It goes down each December 11 and is here to emphasize the importance of mountains. With mountains comprising around 27% of the Earth's topology, conservation is the major thrust of the observance.
See Also:
International Mountain Day 2024
International Mountain Day 2021
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- December 10, 2025
- Michael Clarke Duncan Birth Date 2025
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The late Michael Clarke Duncan was born 12/10/1957. He rose quickly among the thespian fray to become one of my favorite actors ever and I have mourned his loss over the ensuing years since his death at age 54 on September 3, 2012 from respiratory failure secondary to myocardial infarction.
He was born in Chicago and raised by his mother along with sister. He wanted to become a pro football player but opted for acting instead when his mother refused to allow him to play because she feared injury from the sport.
At 6 foot 5 inches he was an imposing figure on the big and small screens playing some of my favorite characters of all time.
I enjoyed his performances on Two and a Half Men, The Green Mile, and Armageddon among others.
However, it was his portrayal of one of God's true miracles, aka John Coffey in The Green Mile which struck my heart and placed him there forever.
Presenting the themes of miracles, redemption, and justice are most certainly difficult acts to follow.
At the time of his death, Duncan was involved with reality television personality Omarosa Manigault of The Apprentice fame (or infamy, depending on your perspective).
Her place in his life was contested by his family during probate and the ensuing mess was the stuff of interpersonal relations legend.
Michael Clarke Duncan was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a heart attack on July 13, 2012. He was relocated on August 6, 2012 from the intensive care unit but remained hospitalized. On September 3, 2012, while in the hospital, he passed of respiratory failure at 54 years old.
A private funeral was held for Duncan in Los Angeles on On September 10, 2012. There were a lot of big name celebrities in attendence and he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
I mourned his loss with many others at that time and later as well.
Rest in peace and happy birthday in Heaven.
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- December 9, 2025
- Christmas Card Day 2025
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My old friend Fred McCurdy passed recently and this is my first Christmas since that day.
He was the local area Santa Claus and I must say he really did strike a stunningly memorable Saint Nicholas with his holiday regalia and knowledge of the toys and such children request while sitting upon his lap.
This is Christmas Card Day.
It is that time when people start mailing holiday greeting cards to one another as a function of the joyous holiday season and it's a reminder to get your stamps, envelopes and greeting cards in order so you can participate.
These days we mail a lot of different Christmas cards during the holdays. The designs and styles are as varied as the people who send them.
I designed one myself in memory of my old friend Fred..
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It's a picture of him in a very iconic pose as Santa Claus and I remember that jolly old elf he portrayed.
Rest in Peace, Fred.
A very Merry Christmas season to the rest of you.
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- December 8, 2025
- John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City
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On this day in 1980 John Lennon was shot and killed in New York City. He died after being shot four times by one Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980. He was returning to his apartment building, the Dakota, in New York City. As Mr Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono arrived home, Chapman called out his name. As Mr Lennon turned, Chapman fired five shots.
Four bullets struck Mr Lennon in the back. Mr Lennon staggered into the building before collapsing. He was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. Mark David Chapman, who had previously met Lennon and asked for an autograph that day, was arrested at the scene and was the assassin. He later said he killed Lennon because of the star's fame and for self-glory.
What a selfish unscrupulous immoral moron.
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- December 7, 2025
- Dad was interred on Pearl Harbor Day 2021
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Daddy was interred on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day having passed on December 4, 2001 from just about everything bad smoking for a lifetime can do to you.
He suffered from emphysema, cor pulmonale, empyema thoracis, and bronchopleural fistula. For reasons unknown he miraculously escaped lung cancer. The surgery was his downfall having sped up the end — but without it he would have passed anyway in the same approximate timeframe. Nothing could save him from his cigarette addiction.
We saw December 7th as a fitting day for his funeral given his career in the United States Navy and retirement as an E-9 Nuke Machinist Mate. With daddy it was "The Navy Way" all the way. He saw "the Navy way" as "the right way" and that was all that mattered to him.
He really went down hard trying to stay with us but in the end it became obvious that it simply was not to be. Though I was a grown man of 46 years at the time I cried and cried unashamedly at his passing. We have missed him all these years.
Rest in peace.
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